In Flanders Field Cold Commentary In Flanders’s Field is a war poem filled with emotions that probably relate to World War One. The strange thing this poem does not have a sort of morning/sad tone to it which was typical after the world experienced the horrors of World War One. This poem has a very strong feeling of fighting on and “hold [the torch] high”(12) feeling. This is due to a lot of different reasons. The most prominent is the fact that this poem seems to be from a single entity
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A Review and Commentary On:A Time to Kill By John GrishamA Time to Kill written by John Grisham is a book that presents the high racial tensions in Canton Mississippi in the early 1990 ’s. The book opens with two young men‚ James Lewis Willard and Billy Ray Cobb‚ joy riding in their brand new yellow pick up truck decked out with Confederate flags. They speed though black neighborhoods throwing full beer bottles at people and houses‚ until they come across ten-year-old Tonya Hailey walking home from
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Commentary- Blessing by Imtiaz Dharker Imtiaz Dharker’s poem describes rain as its blessing to a dry place‚ as the short direct sentences in the first stanza suggests there was no hope on that land: “There never is enough water.” The line shows the desperateness of rain as it sets a negative tone to start the poem. However‚ as the poem progress‚ there was an increase in hope and energy‚ seen from the energetic and positive language such as‚ “rush”‚ “bursts”‚ “crashes” and “roar”. These are
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OVERVIEW This is an excellent short case to introduce the managerial accounting issues related to the "joint cost" problem. Classic microeconomics argues unequivocally that attempts to assign cost to individual products in a "joint" set constitute a complete waste of time--"just maximize the total revenue over the batch." Like the comparable adage to "price so that marginal cost equals marginal revenue‚" the economists’ advice about joint costing is certainly accurate‚ given the assumptions‚ but
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The Shepherd of Hermas: A Commentary. Hermeneia‚ ed. Helmut Koester. Minneapolis: Fortress‚ 1999. Peterson‚ Robert A. “Apostasy.” Presbyterion 19‚ no. 1 (1993): 17-31. Peterson‚ Robert A. “Apostasy in the Hebrews Warning Passages.” Presbyterion 34‚ no. 1 (2008): 27-44. Reiling‚
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witch trials in his famous play‚ The Crucible‚ in the early 1950’s. The Salem witch trials took place in the late 1600’s in the Province of Massachusetts Bay‚ about 260 years prior to when he wrote it. Arthur Miller uses his play to make social commentary about the events that were occurring in the era in which he lived in. In the late 1940’s and early 1950’s‚ the hysteria over the sense of communism became known as the Red Scare as the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the U.S. escalated. Communism
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A legitimate cause for the accusations may result from a mental disorder. In the article The Witchcraft Trials in Salem: A Commentary‚ it is acknowledged that‚ “The cause of her symptoms may have been some combination of stress‚ asthma‚ guilt‚ boredom‚ child abuse‚ epilepsy‚ and delusional psychosis” (Linder). Many of the possible symptoms may have caused the outbreak‚ yet delusional psychosis is more sensible. The form of a mental disorder causing the symptoms is a probable cause. The people of
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Text Commentary of the Declaration of Independence ‘THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE OF THE THIRTEEN COLONIES’ (July4‚ 1776) This is a text commentary about ‘The Unanimous Declaration of the thirteen United States of America’. The Declaration of Independence is a juridical and legal document written sometime between June 11 and June 28‚ 1776. The reason for that lapse of time is because a draft of the declaration was asked to a group of five delegates of the Continental Congress on June 11‚
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A) My primary source is Commentarii de Bello Gallico (Commentaries on the Gallic Wars). This primary source is a series of eight books‚ looking at firsthand account of the Gallic Wars‚ written in a first and third-person narrative. The eighth of these books was written after Caesar’s death by Aulus Hirtius. The search for this primary source was short and sweet due to it being one of the first things to pop up when I Googled “Primary source of the Roman Gallic Wars”. B) In the first book‚ Caesar
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Oedipus Commentary: Corruption of Power Power‚ in the right hands can be a very rewarding thing. But when given to the wrong person‚ that power can blind one’s judgment. In Oedipus pages 15 to 16‚ Sophocles portrays this exploitation of power and authority through the use of characterization‚ diction associated with death‚ and dramatic irony. Through the use of characterization‚ Sophocles is able to mold Oedipus’ character into Aristotle’s definition of a tragic hero. Oedipus is a very admirable
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